in tiger, though, much better. when they did spotlight, they added some sort of notifications to the file system so that when a file changed/was added, spotlight could index it immediately. the added side ebenfit of that, was that finder got that notification as well, and is now as quick as windows.
it is kind of neat to have a smart folder searching for the word "foo" and then save a document with "foo" in it. You *might* make it to 1-one-thousand before it pops up, but i doubt it.
i don't use network shares too often, so i can't comment on them...
Safari won't break it down by product category, but it does maintain some generic ones (Date, Source). I'll give IE credit, though. I didn't really even know RSS carried that kind of information...
That's not entirely true. IE may allow for _more_ sorting etc, but Safari allows you to bookmark RSS feeds, adjust the description/article length, sort by Date, Title, Source and New, filter by Date (Today, Last week, last month), Source (if you have several RSS feeds open in one screen) or search term. It'll even let you save the settings (so, show me articles written today with the word "microsoft" ordered by source, title only) and bookmark them. If a new article pops up that matches all of those filters, a number appears next to the bookmark.
I didn't read the article; the review was worthelss enough.
Two points -
1. I personally dislike most of the popular music these days. Or, if I do like it, I like a single catchy song and I buy just that. My tastes are not "out there" at all. I like Coldplay and Counting Crows. Once I've purchased their CDs, I don't have a lot more to buy. I do almost all of my buying from iTMS (iTS, sorry), and still that only amounts to maybe 10 songs a month.
2. No one is going to repurchase music they've already got on CD, and CDs have been around for quite a bit longer than the iTS.
So, my personal collection (and I realize I don't account for the everyone) is probably 95% ripped and 5% iTS, even though I haven't bought a CD in at least a year. There is no preference for one over the other, I can't hear the difference and I've never bumped up against the DRM restrictions. Maybe the slashdot crowd has, but I can't imagine (warning: speculation ahead) that most of the world really cares about the DRM issue, as long as it doesn't interfere with how they are using their music.
Wikipedia says that the CD cames out in 1982, some 24 years ago. Let's give iTS 24 years and then decide which format people prefer.
Just for the record, I emphasized "from my experience" because I was saying just that -- it might not be a universal truth.
I have not real knowledge of machines being reused for any purpose other than donation, so that is a moot point. However, in three years, when my current desktop is to be replaced, will graphics cards still support VGA? Or will it be all DVI-D? If the latter, then I'll need a new monitor anyway.
Maybe that doesn't hold, but my point is that, at least where I am, as we upgrade it is the whole enchilada. When monitors and LCDs were more expensive I could see companies doing as you say. I'm just not so sure anymore, with monitor prices falling so dramatically, especially for a business-class (slower pixel response) display.
But, and you don't have to respond, I'm just speculating based on my experience. I understand that just becuase I say something doesn't make it a universal truth.
As far as the HTPC goes, the mac mini is certainly suitable in all way except software. The Core duo is plenty powerful, the size is right, comes with a remote and is absolutely silent. If FrontRow were more than iLife blown up and had some video post-processing options, it'd fit the bill pretty well, I think. We'll never see an Apple DVR (how would tey sell iTunes content?), but I'm doubtful that even MCE or MythTV, which are very good, will ever be more than niche products. Once again, just my speculation.
I think he's right, but I've got no data for that.
My place of business buys all new machines. Right now we're still in the process of getting rid of all of the old CRT monitors -- with the power savings, there is good incentive for a business to do that. Once the CRT>LCD transition is complete, then maybe you'll be correct, but even then I don't see it. In three years, monitors will be larger with higher resolutions for the same price we're paying today. Plus, if we want to re-use the old machines (either as work-from-home or donating) they'll be next to worthless without a monitor.
I've built my own machines in the past, but stopped when I realized I could save money by buying a Dell, especially since I never once upgraded anything on my machine. Typically by the time I knew I needed something, the technology passed me by (AGP2x-4x-8x-PCIe) and I couldn't upgrade even if I wanted.
So, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, I think the all-in-one, for most people and business is a great investment and aligns with their current replacement actions, even if they may not think so (i.e. I thought I would upgrade but never did).
I don't think I hate the finder, but I don't love it. I actually ran across an old IBM laptop today with Windows 3.1 on it. I was floored at how fast the File manager was on that sucker. Guess I've been using the Finder too long:-) I find myself navigating the Finder through the use of Apple-SHIFT-G and tab typing if I need to go somewhere drastically different than where I am -- obviously not optimal (in fact, it sucks:-)
I also dislike OSX keyboard navigation. It seems to be more application based than it should be, meaning it works sometimes and not others. Check System Preferences under Keyboard and Mouse and then Keyboard Shortcuts...enables Full keyboard access by choosing "all Controls" (near the bottom). It doesn't help everything, but it makes it a little more bearable.
Still, of the three OSs, I'd rather use OS X. That says something, doesn't it?
>> I DESPERATELY wish there were and OPTION to always have the x - + displayed.
Really? I use OS X pretty much all the time, but I support many more Windows PCs. I don't think I even notice the icons or colors anymore. I guess it can't quite be muscle memory, but it is something close...
Why can't color be used as a differentiating tool, assuming there are safe-gaurds in place for disabilities? Do your traffic lights feature little cars driving, stopping and yielding, or are they just colored lights? The learning curve may be just a little steeper for someone to memorize the colors (and that's a stretch since a dash, X and square don't immediately mean anything either), but once they do, a red button in the corner has an immediate and obvious use...
I don't see where usability suffers, and we get some eye-candy to boot.
Maybe I don't understand lock in. You can use MP3 on the iPod, along with wav, aiff and Apple Lossless. You can't use WMA, but if you import non-DRM WMA into iTunes, it'll convert them to aac/m4a for you. When you first install iTunes, as a matter of fact, it'll search your HD for music files (including WMA) and add them to its catalog, converting when necessary.
Its got nothing to do with DNF, but this article (part two, part 3) about the development of the Superman movies had me in tears I was laughing so hard. I know very little about the development of DNF, but if it was anything like Superman Returns, I'll cut them some slack...
It would take some work, but I think you could ferret out the results. The advertisers know when their ads are being shown. If TiVo only recorded a thumbs-up/thumbs-down for a certain time-code, that could be translated into the actual ad. alternatively, just like now, any advertiser that wanted to take part in this program could ad a little bit of data to the commercial stream (similar to what happens now) that TiVo could record along with the T-up/T-down comment...
That's odd that Safari 1.2 is the download on that page...Safari 2.0.s is the most recent non-beta version, but it only works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
Don't quote me on this, but with HD-DVD it is up to the video provider as to whether or not the stream gets down sampled over analog lines. I would have thought BluRay was the same thing, but...this may be another of the two camps serious incompatibilities...
I don't know what type of resampling Safari uses, but it is NOT nearest neighbor. Comparing a graphic resized in Photoshop to a graphic resized in Safari using CSS shows some subtle distances, but none of the jaggies present in that same graphic resized in FireFox of IE.
Just to clarify - make a (or bunch of) partitions and install differing versions of OSX on each. restart your computer and hold "option." It'll come up to a screen where you can choose anyone of the valid installs, even telling you exactly which version of OS X it is (i.e 10.2.4)...
I don't think I am quite understanding, but would something like Apple's Airport Express (with the exception being that you can only use iTunes to play to it withouth 3rd party software) be what you are looking for? http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ From what I've read, the Airport Express can decode Apple Lossless; iTunes takes any audio it can play (so mp4, mp3 and I would imagine Ogg/FLAC again someday) converts and encrypts it on the fly and streams it over the network (wireless or wired) to the express. The express has a dual jack that accepts a standard headphone jack (1/8"?) or, with the help of a special apple audio cable, digital optical.
I've got two, and I love being able to just pop open my laptop and click play in iTunes to listen to some over my stereo. It sounds great and I've never had a drop out...
Yeah, no argument there. I DO have a FW800 drive, but its a big bulky thing that I don't carry around. It is 400GB, though, so great for backup and ultra fast. I don't really bemoan the loss of FW800, I was just commenting on the backward compatibility.
From reading the thread, here, though, I can see some uses for 800, mostly professional/advanced. If Apple wants their pro line to maintain its "pro" status, I would think they'd want to appease those people.
At this point, to be the media company, they've got to keep FW400 around if for nothing else than the bulk of digital camcorders. Makes you wonder, though, why they didn't make the 800 connector the same as the 400. Then, I'm guessing, this point would be moot (I had to look "moot" up. I always thought it was ""mute":) ).
for what its worth, if you, with your fingers, touch the outer ring and the prong in the middle, nothing happens. We leave ours laying around all over and, aside from them hurting when they are stepped on, no shocks or burns yet.
I'd agree with that. All I was responding to was the idea that RSS isn't "push technology." It isn't, but to the average user it would appear to be, and perception is really all that matters.
In the end, I don't know why people do or do not like RSS. But I'd guess it is the "push" nature of it that people don't get/like. If RSS was integrated with email, another not-really-push-but-like-push technology, it might not be as jarring to people, but I'm just guessing.
You are right. It is not technically a "push" technology. However, since most RSs aggregators are set, by default, to update every so often, the appearance is that information is being pushed to you.
It doesn't really matter what the actual technology is. All that matters is perception. The parent was saying "it is disconcerting for non-geek members of the internet community to have this news delivered instead of going out and browsing for it." In every sense except the technical one, this is how it appears to the end user. Push technology or not, the parent's post was a valid one.
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in panther i absolutely agree. it was awful.
in tiger, though, much better. when they did spotlight, they added some sort of notifications to the file system so that when a file changed/was added, spotlight could index it immediately. the added side ebenfit of that, was that finder got that notification as well, and is now as quick as windows.
it is kind of neat to have a smart folder searching for the word "foo" and then save a document with "foo" in it. You *might* make it to 1-one-thousand before it pops up, but i doubt it.
i don't use network shares too often, so i can't comment on them...
Thanks for the image -- you are right about the thousand words...
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I muddled my post talking about the bookmarks, because I think it is a cool feature.
IE does seem to go farther than Safari, but still, Safari seems to have at least a subset of that functionality.
http://nathan.ziarek.com/wp-content/uploads/safar
Safari won't break it down by product category, but it does maintain some generic ones (Date, Source). I'll give IE credit, though. I didn't really even know RSS carried that kind of information...
That's not entirely true. IE may allow for _more_ sorting etc, but Safari allows you to bookmark RSS feeds, adjust the description/article length, sort by Date, Title, Source and New, filter by Date (Today, Last week, last month), Source (if you have several RSS feeds open in one screen) or search term. It'll even let you save the settings (so, show me articles written today with the word "microsoft" ordered by source, title only) and bookmark them. If a new article pops up that matches all of those filters, a number appears next to the bookmark.
I didn't read the article; the review was worthelss enough.
Two points -
1. I personally dislike most of the popular music these days. Or, if I do like it, I like a single catchy song and I buy just that. My tastes are not "out there" at all. I like Coldplay and Counting Crows. Once I've purchased their CDs, I don't have a lot more to buy. I do almost all of my buying from iTMS (iTS, sorry), and still that only amounts to maybe 10 songs a month.
2. No one is going to repurchase music they've already got on CD, and CDs have been around for quite a bit longer than the iTS.
So, my personal collection (and I realize I don't account for the everyone) is probably 95% ripped and 5% iTS, even though I haven't bought a CD in at least a year. There is no preference for one over the other, I can't hear the difference and I've never bumped up against the DRM restrictions. Maybe the slashdot crowd has, but I can't imagine (warning: speculation ahead) that most of the world really cares about the DRM issue, as long as it doesn't interfere with how they are using their music.
Wikipedia says that the CD cames out in 1982, some 24 years ago. Let's give iTS 24 years and then decide which format people prefer.
Just for the record, I emphasized "from my experience" because I was saying just that -- it might not be a universal truth.
I have not real knowledge of machines being reused for any purpose other than donation, so that is a moot point. However, in three years, when my current desktop is to be replaced, will graphics cards still support VGA? Or will it be all DVI-D? If the latter, then I'll need a new monitor anyway.
Maybe that doesn't hold, but my point is that, at least where I am, as we upgrade it is the whole enchilada. When monitors and LCDs were more expensive I could see companies doing as you say. I'm just not so sure anymore, with monitor prices falling so dramatically, especially for a business-class (slower pixel response) display.
But, and you don't have to respond, I'm just speculating based on my experience. I understand that just becuase I say something doesn't make it a universal truth.
As far as the HTPC goes, the mac mini is certainly suitable in all way except software. The Core duo is plenty powerful, the size is right, comes with a remote and is absolutely silent. If FrontRow were more than iLife blown up and had some video post-processing options, it'd fit the bill pretty well, I think. We'll never see an Apple DVR (how would tey sell iTunes content?), but I'm doubtful that even MCE or MythTV, which are very good, will ever be more than niche products. Once again, just my speculation.
Yeah, but this is Slashdot. I think you are only proving the point.
I think he's right, but I've got no data for that.
My place of business buys all new machines. Right now we're still in the process of getting rid of all of the old CRT monitors -- with the power savings, there is good incentive for a business to do that. Once the CRT>LCD transition is complete, then maybe you'll be correct, but even then I don't see it. In three years, monitors will be larger with higher resolutions for the same price we're paying today. Plus, if we want to re-use the old machines (either as work-from-home or donating) they'll be next to worthless without a monitor.
I've built my own machines in the past, but stopped when I realized I could save money by buying a Dell, especially since I never once upgraded anything on my machine. Typically by the time I knew I needed something, the technology passed me by (AGP2x-4x-8x-PCIe) and I couldn't upgrade even if I wanted.
So, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, I think the all-in-one, for most people and business is a great investment and aligns with their current replacement actions, even if they may not think so (i.e. I thought I would upgrade but never did).
I don't think I hate the finder, but I don't love it. I actually ran across an old IBM laptop today with Windows 3.1 on it. I was floored at how fast the File manager was on that sucker. Guess I've been using the Finder too long :-) I find myself navigating the Finder through the use of Apple-SHIFT-G and tab typing if I need to go somewhere drastically different than where I am -- obviously not optimal (in fact, it sucks :-)
I also dislike OSX keyboard navigation. It seems to be more application based than it should be, meaning it works sometimes and not others. Check System Preferences under Keyboard and Mouse and then Keyboard Shortcuts...enables Full keyboard access by choosing "all Controls" (near the bottom). It doesn't help everything, but it makes it a little more bearable.
Still, of the three OSs, I'd rather use OS X. That says something, doesn't it?
>> I DESPERATELY wish there were and OPTION to always have the x - + displayed. Really? I use OS X pretty much all the time, but I support many more Windows PCs. I don't think I even notice the icons or colors anymore. I guess it can't quite be muscle memory, but it is something close...
Why can't color be used as a differentiating tool, assuming there are safe-gaurds in place for disabilities? Do your traffic lights feature little cars driving, stopping and yielding, or are they just colored lights? The learning curve may be just a little steeper for someone to memorize the colors (and that's a stretch since a dash, X and square don't immediately mean anything either), but once they do, a red button in the corner has an immediate and obvious use...
I don't see where usability suffers, and we get some eye-candy to boot.
Maybe I don't understand lock in. You can use MP3 on the iPod, along with wav, aiff and Apple Lossless. You can't use WMA, but if you import non-DRM WMA into iTunes, it'll convert them to aac/m4a for you. When you first install iTunes, as a matter of fact, it'll search your HD for music files (including WMA) and add them to its catalog, converting when necessary.
Its got nothing to do with DNF, but this article (part two, part 3) about the development of the Superman movies had me in tears I was laughing so hard. I know very little about the development of DNF, but if it was anything like Superman Returns, I'll cut them some slack...
It would take some work, but I think you could ferret out the results. The advertisers know when their ads are being shown. If TiVo only recorded a thumbs-up/thumbs-down for a certain time-code, that could be translated into the actual ad. alternatively, just like now, any advertiser that wanted to take part in this program could ad a little bit of data to the commercial stream (similar to what happens now) that TiVo could record along with the T-up/T-down comment...
That's odd that Safari 1.2 is the download on that page...Safari 2.0.s is the most recent non-beta version, but it only works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
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Don't quote me on this, but with HD-DVD it is up to the video provider as to whether or not the stream gets down sampled over analog lines. I would have thought BluRay was the same thing, but...this may be another of the two camps serious incompatibilities...
I don't know what type of resampling Safari uses, but it is NOT nearest neighbor. Comparing a graphic resized in Photoshop to a graphic resized in Safari using CSS shows some subtle distances, but none of the jaggies present in that same graphic resized in FireFox of IE.
Just to clarify - make a (or bunch of) partitions and install differing versions of OSX on each. restart your computer and hold "option." It'll come up to a screen where you can choose anyone of the valid installs, even telling you exactly which version of OS X it is (i.e 10.2.4)...
Having just heard about this it is great - works on my mac and PC...is there anything FireFox can't do?
I don't think I am quite understanding, but would something like Apple's Airport Express (with the exception being that you can only use iTunes to play to it withouth 3rd party software) be what you are looking for? http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ From what I've read, the Airport Express can decode Apple Lossless; iTunes takes any audio it can play (so mp4, mp3 and I would imagine Ogg/FLAC again someday) converts and encrypts it on the fly and streams it over the network (wireless or wired) to the express. The express has a dual jack that accepts a standard headphone jack (1/8"?) or, with the help of a special apple audio cable, digital optical.
I've got two, and I love being able to just pop open my laptop and click play in iTunes to listen to some over my stereo. It sounds great and I've never had a drop out...
Yeah, no argument there. I DO have a FW800 drive, but its a big bulky thing that I don't carry around. It is 400GB, though, so great for backup and ultra fast. I don't really bemoan the loss of FW800, I was just commenting on the backward compatibility. From reading the thread, here, though, I can see some uses for 800, mostly professional/advanced. If Apple wants their pro line to maintain its "pro" status, I would think they'd want to appease those people. At this point, to be the media company, they've got to keep FW400 around if for nothing else than the bulk of digital camcorders. Makes you wonder, though, why they didn't make the 800 connector the same as the 400. Then, I'm guessing, this point would be moot (I had to look "moot" up. I always thought it was ""mute" :) ).
for what its worth, if you, with your fingers, touch the outer ring and the prong in the middle, nothing happens. We leave ours laying around all over and, aside from them hurting when they are stepped on, no shocks or burns yet.
FireWire 800 is backward compatible to FW400...I've got a 800>400 cable right here, and I'm using a FW400 hard drive on it as we speak...
I know I personally can't wait to run the old VirtualPC on my new mac using Rosetta, the PPC translator. Emulating emulation is teh coolest!
I'd agree with that. All I was responding to was the idea that RSS isn't "push technology." It isn't, but to the average user it would appear to be, and perception is really all that matters. In the end, I don't know why people do or do not like RSS. But I'd guess it is the "push" nature of it that people don't get/like. If RSS was integrated with email, another not-really-push-but-like-push technology, it might not be as jarring to people, but I'm just guessing.
I think you're missing the point.
You are right. It is not technically a "push" technology. However, since most RSs aggregators are set, by default, to update every so often, the appearance is that information is being pushed to you.
It doesn't really matter what the actual technology is. All that matters is perception. The parent was saying "it is disconcerting for non-geek members of the internet community to have this news delivered instead of going out and browsing for it." In every sense except the technical one, this is how it appears to the end user. Push technology or not, the parent's post was a valid one.